Sounds of the 30's

1930's Fast Facts

1932: Edwin H. Land makes the first Polaroid glass.

1936: scientists at Rockefeller University in New York invented the first artificial heart called the perfusion pump.

May 6,1937: The first radio broadcast was a report about Hindenburg disaster. The Hindenburg, a transatlantic lighter-than-air floating passenger ship. It crashed and exploded while landing in New Jersey.

June 28, 1939: The first Airway transportation begins when Pan American Airways had a plane fly 22 passengers from Long Island to Lisbon, Portugal. The trip took up to 23 hours, 52 minutes.

1930: Pluto was discovered by astronomers.

1933: February 15,Chicago mayor is fatally shot.

1936: Hundred of Americans join the “Lincoln Brigades.”

1939: Germans invade Poland.

1930: Jean Rosenthal was on of the extreme natives in lightning designing in the history of theater she pioneers the idea of theater lighting.

1933: A dance called the fan dance is a hit at the Chicago World’s fair is one of Sally Rand’s dances.

1936: Gone with the wind is published the author of the novel is Margaret Mitchell.